On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 11:10 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:58 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> Le Lun 1 décembre 2008 16:47, Alexander E. Patrakov a écrit : > >> > >>> Apriori, there is no sensible default keyboard layout. > >> There could be if the hardware started advertising what actually > >> painted on its keys (and even then many people would want to override > >> it). Since it does not, you're right. > > > > I think it does. Some entries in the Microsoft support pages tend to say > > so, at least: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280725 > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304614 > > The USB specs have layout as an optional field that most vendors don't > fill in since it would cost a few cents extra per keyboard to put in > dip switches or different PROMs for different layouts, instead of just > attaching different keytops. Sun keyboards do, and I think Apple do, > since auto-detection was worth the few extra cents for our users, but > I don't know of any others that do.
How sad. > (And because Sun keyboards do, on Solaris, we've always had X ask the > kernel for the keyboard layout, from either the hardware or the user > settings, and use that to set the X keyboard layout. I've been > working with our HAL team to have HAL do this as well as we're moving > to Xorg 1.5, and it seems to be working for us, but it depends on the > Solaris keyboard layout ioctls, so won't be generally useful, other > than as proof that something better than "us"-for-everyone is possible.) Maybe Xorg should still try to use it if present, and output a tiny warning in the logs otherwise, to make people prefer the right kind of keyboard. Thanks, Xav _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg